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Help With Dell Latitude CPt C500GT

  • 17-06-2005 5:07pm
    #1
    Aidan Sinnott
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32 ✭


    Hello
    From title you know what brand and model - Spilt some liquid over it and as a result needed a new motherboard which was done by a professional!
    all was great untill 4 or 5hrs usage and the screen kinda burns out and goes black computer freezes up and stays that way. when powered back up the thing runs fine for maybe an hr or maybe a few mins tried an external monitor but to no avail! Thing is when left powered down for a couple of weeks i get 10 12hrs out of it and then the screen really looks like its burning out! I have my suspions as to what it is but don't know where to start. It does the same thing under win98se and xpsp2. Also the shop that fixed it is no longer so im left to my own devices and already 220bucks down! What to do?


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  • #2
    J-blk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,906 ✭✭✭J-blk


    It could be overheating... Modern Pentium 4s (and Athlon 64s) have a thermal diode that will shut down the PC to prevent damage, when the temperature reaches critical levels (around 75C typically). I may be wrong, but I don't think Pentium 3s have any overheating protection... Your system uses a P3 500Mhz, right?

    Now, if it is overheating, this could be happening because the "professional" that fixed it, did a crappy job and either didn't re-seat the heatsink/fan on the CPU properly, used too little (or too crappy) heatsink thermal paste or worse yet, forgot to put any thermal paste on it...

    Since the store isn't around, there's no way for you to question the work done but you'd be amazed at the kind of work some "professionals" do...


  • #3
    Aidan Sinnott
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32 ✭Aidan Sinnott


    After a lot of head scratching and and cups of java the only thing 2 things left on my list were overheating (Poor workmanship ie a Gimp) who didn't replace the heatsink/fan in a proper order which would explain a lot! It is a p3 with no overheating protection oder than to do what its doing.
    The other thing im kind hopeing it might be is a bios problem i say kinda cos i might be able to do something about this


  • #4
    J-blk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,906 ✭✭✭J-blk


    Well, if you now feel confident enough to take it apart, you could always check the heatsink, apply some good thermal paste (e.g Artic Silver II) and re-connect the heatsink/fan assembly.

    Problem is, if your system already overheated a few times, your P3 is probably permanently damaged so you may be stuck with a paperweight...


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